1. The present application has been filed by the petitioner under Section 439 Cr.P.C. read with Section 482 Cr.P.C. for grant of regular bail in case FIR No.713/2014, under Sections 498-A/304-B/34 IPC, registered at PS R.K.Puram, Delhi.
2. The petitioner is working as Assistant General Manager in the Reserve Bank of India and was residing along with his family members. His marriage was solemnized with the daughter of the complainant, named, Konica on 26th February, 2012, through newspaper matrimonial. The petitioner's version is that no dowry articles were ever demanded by the petitioner or his family members at the time of marriage and whatever stridhan was given by the parents of the deceased at the time of marriage, the same was never demanded by the petitioner or his family members. On the day of the incident, i.e. 2nd October, 2014, Konica deceased locked herself in a room of her matrimonial house. Thereafter, the petitioner knocked on the door several times but received no response. He also tried to find her in the toilet. Thereafter, the petitioner made a call to the deceased's brother, namely, Naveen and told him that the deceased had kept herself locked in a room, upon which the brother of the deceased replied to the petitioner that "solve your problem on your own". With no option left, the petitioner rushed towards the balcony and cut the wire netting of the door of the room adjoining the balcony with the help of the knife and found that the deceased had hanged herself with the ceiling fan. Thereafter, the petitioner called her sister and took the deceased to the Rockland Hospital, where she was declared 'brought dead'.